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The Regional Integration Component in the SSATP DP2

The Regional Integration Component in the SSATP DP2. SSATP Annual Meeting Addis Ababa – Ethiopia December 2012. The SSATP Regional Integration focus.

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The Regional Integration Component in the SSATP DP2

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  1. The Regional Integration Component in the SSATP DP2 SSATP Annual Meeting Addis Ababa – Ethiopia December 2012

  2. The SSATP Regional Integration focus • SSATP is supporting RECs and countries in strengthening policy setting organizations for regional integration through two main instruments: • An institutional framework promoting an inclusive policy dialogue (corridor management authority) • and monitoring tools (transport observatories) • Applied at two scales: • At regional level, a forum of the trade facilitation community ensures coherence of trade facilitation programs across corridors and RECs • At corridor level, SSATP is accompanying countries and REC one step further towards the implementation of facilitation policies

  3. The SSATP Regional Integration component four pillars

  4. SSATP Corridor Facilitation Program • Obstacles to trade in Sub-Sahara Africa manifest through well-known symptoms – high costs, long delays, and unreliability • Numerous snapshot studies not fully embedded into policy making mechanisms • Corridor Authorities and REC requested SSATP support for creating sustainable monitoring tools anchored in policy setting institutions

  5. The building blocks of the SSATP Transport Observatories Program

  6. Geographic scope and partners • Regional Economic Communities (RECs) • Corridor authorities • Development partners • Logistics operators and public agencies contributing operational data and participating to surveys Corridors to Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Abidjan - Lagos Mombasa Douala Dar-Es-Salaam Congo Basin Maputo Walvis Bay

  7. Entry point for a wider perspective

  8. How the transport observatories will serve policy formulation?

  9. Volumes: Shifting patterns across corridors reflect context and policies • Burkina Faso has the choice between several corridors radiating from the West Africa maritime gateways • The evolution of corridor volumes mirror the political and economic changes affecting the region • Combining information enables the measure of the impact of changes in the comparative efficiency of the corridors

  10. Time: Making joint border posts effective in East Africa • Border crossings are often considered as obstacles, and a variety of remedies experimented, notably joint border posts schemes • At the end of 2011, Revenue Authorities from Kenya and Uganda resolved to reduce crossing times at Malaba border, which is gradually transformed into a One-Stop Border Post: • Promoting advance submission of declaration • Traffic and parking rules for trucks • Coordination with C&F agents • A survey organized before and after implementation shows a dramatic decrease of border crossing time: • 50% of trucks staying over 24 hours before • All trucks passed the border in less than 6h after

  11. Time: Inland Deliveries in Burkina Faso • Evidence points that reducing delivery time requires coordination of terminal delivery for multimodal transport • Rail deliveries include terminal time in port and inland up to final delivery, with significant idle time inland, despite shorter transport time • By comparison, for road deliveries, transport plus inland terminal time to final delivery is 8 days ½, with just over a day at the terminal • Data from Pilot Transport Observatory: • Railway data for Jan-Feb 2012 with Container Terminal, Abidjan – Ouagadougou railway, inland terminals • Road transport data for Jan-October 2012 from Burkina Faso Shippers’ Council database

  12. Policy interventions and impact on road transport cost factors • For West and Central Africa corridors, road transport prices is itemized according to cost factors that can be influenced through a range of policy measures • That analysis will help measuring the potential impact of the policies considered, notably for the reform of the industry in West Africa

  13. Focusing policy dialogue on East Africa road transport industry challenges • Transport companies in East Africa have indicated their main areas of concern • The ranking provide entry points for dialogue • Industry surveys substantiate and qualify the areas of concern for the road transport industry and promote dialogue between logistics operators and the public regulatory entities

  14. Next steps: the Roadmap

  15. Thank you for your attention SSATP – Regional Integration Component

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